'GHOST' definitions:

Definition of 'ghost'

From: WordNet
noun
A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre]
noun
A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else [syn: ghostwriter, ghost]
noun
The visible disembodied soul of a dead person
noun
A suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" [syn: touch, trace, ghost]
verb
Move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
verb
Haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [syn: haunt, obsess, ghost]
verb
Write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" [syn: ghost, ghostwrite]

Definition of 'Ghost'

From: GCIDE
  • Ghost \Ghost\, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ghost'

From: GCIDE
  • Ghost \Ghost\ (g[=o]st), n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. g[=a]st breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g[=e]st spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. [1913 Webster]
  • The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. [1913 Webster]
  • Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. --Poe. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. [1913 Webster]
  • Ghost moth (Zool.), a large European moth ({Hepialus humuli}); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also {great swift}.
  • Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.
  • To give up the ghost or To yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. [1913 Webster]
  • And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. --Gen. xlix. 33. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ghost'

From: GCIDE
  • Ghost \Ghost\, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'GHOST'

From: Easton
  • Ghost an old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew _nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma_, both meaning "breath," "life," "spirit," the "living principle" (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:9; Matt. 27:50; John 19:30). The expression "to give up the ghost" means to die (Lam. 1:19; Gen. 25:17; 35:29; 49:33; Job 3:11). (See HOLY GHOST.)

Synonyms of 'ghost'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Acronyms for 'GHOST'

From: V.E.R.A.
  • Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)

Words containing 'GHOST'